We’re extending our summer workshop series! If you’re looking for an apartment, or just looking to learn more about your rights as a tenant, join us for one of our free online workshops.  … Kick-start your Housing Search workshop … Are you moving to Montreal? Looking to kick-start your housing search? Join us for a free online workshop to learn how to find safe, affordable housing in Montreal. Our workshop will explain the process of finding housing in Montreal, tips to find an apartment within your budget, and information about your rights and responsibilities as a tenant.  … Register below for the following workshop dates:  … September 7th, 2022, 2pm  … September 12th, 2022, 2pm … September 14th, 2022, 2pm … Your rights as a tenant workshop … Are you looking to learn more…

When signing a new lease for an apartment, the landlord must provide the new tenants with written notice of the lowest rent paid in the last 12 months. This is usually indicated in Section G of the standardized Quebec lease.   …    … It’s a tenant’s right to know the lowest rent paid (regardless of whether it was rented in the last 12 months). This is another measure to keep rent control effective in Quebec and protect tenants from unreasonable rent increases.  … If the new rent is higher than the lowest rent paid in the last 12 months, tenants have the right to file at the Tribunal Administratif du Logement (TAL) for Rent Fixation. A Rent Fixation is a way to calculate a tenant’s rent.    …    … A tenant’s rent will then be “fixed” and set by the TAL who are the provincial body…

This info-session is geared towards those who are actively searching for housing. If you are beginning your housing search, check out our ‘Kick-start your housing search’ workshop first. Our info session gives you the opportunity to meet as a group with a member of the HOJO team in order to receive personalized information to help you go through ads for housing online, contact landlords, and schedule viewings. Spaces are limited, so register below now to secure your spot. Session Dates and Registration: August 4 at 12 pm … August 11 at 1 pm  … August 23 at 12 pm … September 1 at 12 pm

Are you moving to Montreal? Looking to kick-start your housing search? Join us for a free online workshop to learn how to find safe, affordable housing in Montreal. Our workshop will explain the process of finding housing in Montreal, tips to find an apartment within your budget, and information about your rights and responsibilities as a tenant. Register for a session below! Session Dates and Registration Information … August 2 at 1pm … August 9 at 2 pm … August 16 at 11 am … August 18 at 2 pm … August 24 at 12 pm … August 29 at 12 pm … After you register for this workshop please consult the dates for our other Workshop: Info-session on renting and signing a lease

Mind Your pipes!  … Winter is cold here in Montreal. The temperature can fall to as low as –40 Celsuis and these low temperatures can also affect the water pipes in your home. Water can freeze inside your pipes blocking the flow and causing damage to your apartment and potentially your neighbours apartment too. In the freezing and melting process, the cold can crack your pipes at joints, valves, or other points within the system. Sometimes, when the ice in the freezing and melting process, pressure builds, causing pipes to to burst which can cause damage.    … It is important to keep the heat on at your apartment in the winter- even if you are out of town, so as not to have the water in the pipes freeze or burst. If your pipes do freeze, this is a serious situation and you need to let…